Luxurious Kruger & Victoria Falls Excellence – Seven Days

Overview

Countries visited: South Africa and Zimbabwe

Kruger is rated as the ultimate safari experience and Victoria Falls is a Natural Wonder of the World and also the largest waterfall in the wet season.

This is a truly wonderful wildlife and scenic combination package that flows as smoothly as the Zambezi River. With 3 nights at a private reserve in Greater Kruger and 3 nights at the Victoria Falls Safari Lodge, it includes top guides, great food, stylish and functional accommodation and jaw-dropping wildlife and scenic experiences.

This journey is perfect for solo travellers, groups of friends, couples, romantic getaways, wildlife and photographic enthusiasts.

Itinerary

Day 1: Fly to Hoedspruit Eastgate Airport

Take a scheduled flight from Johannesburg OR Tambo to Hoedspruit Eastgate airport, you will be met off your flight and transferred to the intimate Buffalo Camp for 3 nights.
Reminiscent of a traditional African safari camp from a bygone era, this is the ultimate luxurious tented accommodation experience. Built from natural stone and wood, the luxury game lodge has an olde worlde atmosphere while being completely contemporary. The 10 spacious suites are set on stilted wooden decks built on an elevated riverbank. Wooden walkways connect the suites and main lodge. Tall shady trees provide shade and tented suites are air conditioned. Oil lanterns illuminate the walkways to create subtle light and ambiance. Focus is on personal attention with superb service and complete comfort.
à la carte breakfast and lunch are served under a canopy of thatch, while dinner is usually enjoyed in the rustic outdoor boma, around a roaring open fire.

Day 2: Morning and Afternoon Game Drives and Bush Walk

The day starts with an early wake-up call between 5am and 5:30am. While seeing big game is always exhilarating, there are many other smaller species that are also captivating, and birding enthusiasts will be delighted at the approximately 350 species of birds recorded on the reserve. Halfway through the game drive, there’s a stop for hot drinks and snacks, before returning to the lodge for a full breakfast.
Since this is a Big Five reserve, seeing lion, leopard, elephant, rhino and buffalo is highly likely.

At around 3:30pm, everyone gathers for a decadent high tea, before heading out with your ranger and tracker for the afternoon game drive through the reserve. En route, you’ll stop for a sundowner drink.
As darkness falls, the nocturnal animals of the bush come out. The skilled tracker will scan the landscape using a spotlight, which illuminates animals’ eyes. A variety of completely different species can be seen on the night drive back to the lodge just in time for dinner.

Day 3: Morning and Afternoon Game Drives and Bush Walk

Usual morning and afternoon game drives run every day, rain or shine. An optional bush walk is also recommended, feel Africa underfoot on a guided bush walk with a highly trained game ranger. The experience offers an intimate encounter with nature and wildlife, and medicinal and other plants are identified en route.
Rangers also teach walkers to track wildlife in the traditional way, using animal footprints and scat. Expert trackers are able to tell the gender of many animals just from their footprints. Large and dangerous animals are avoided on walks, but many other species can be viewed from a safe distance at ground level. A bush walk through Kapama Private Game Reserve is a truly memorable and authentic encounter.

Day 4: Fly to Victoria Falls

An early breakfast and departure is necessary to depart Kapama by 7.30 am to arrive at Nelspruit airport at 9.30 am for the direct flight to Livingstone on Mon, Wed, Fri & Sat.
There will be a meet and greet and then you will be transferred to the Victoria Falls Safari Lodge for 3 nights with breakfast included.
Built of thatch and timber, the lodge rises several levels, giving the impression of a vast open-plan tree house. The rooms all have private balconies, most of which overlook a central waterhole, offering the opportunity to observe herds of buffalo, elephant and kudu and hyenas later in the evening.
At 4.00 pm you will be transferred to the Zambezi River, for a sunset cruise above the Falls. An expert boat crew and guides filled with wildlife knowledge and plenty of tales about local legend and colonial exploration, will keep you entertained and amused. Complimentary drinks and snacks are included and sunsets are exceptionally dramatic so please don’t forget your camera.

Day 5: Chobe full day trip

Chobe National Park is across the border from Victoria Falls in Botswana and is home to an estimated 50 000 elephants in the dry season and many other concentrations of animals along the banks of the breath-taking Chobe River. It is famous for its elephant and lion populations. This full day tour departs daily from Victoria Falls at around 7.30 am. Clients are transferred to the border post at Kazungula where their Botswana guide will meet them after immigration procedures. The day incorporates a river cruise and game drive in open 4×4 vehicles along the Chobe River and includes lunch, drinks and snacks. You will return back to Vic Falls around 5.30 pm.

Day 6: Victoria Falls activities

There is so much to do at Victoria Falls and, it is known as the Adrenalin capital of Africa, here is a list of optional activities available to you:
Bungee jump 111 meters – $160 pp
White water rafting – full day – $150 pp
Elephant back safaris – $150 pp
Microlight flight – $180 pp
Walk with Lions – $150 pp
Upper Zambezi canoeing – $150 pp
African Village tour – $ 60 pp
Helicopter 13-minute flight of Angels – $ 150 pp

Day 7: Flight to Johannesburg

Enjoy an early breakfast so you can be collected from the hotel at 8.00 am for a guided tour of the Victoria Falls, a knowledgeable guide will take you on an unforgettable experience through the Victoria Falls rainforest, a journey that not only affords a view of one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World but provides a great deal of interesting facts about the geology, wildlife and history of Africa’s most famous landmark. Listen to magical tales of local legend while you enjoy the constant spray from the “The Smoke that Thunders”.
At 11.00 am you will be transferred to Victoria Falls airport to check-in 2 hours before your departure.

Accommodation

Kapama Buffalo Camp

Stylised and traditional, warm and inviting – Kapama Buffalo Camp is a quaint and exciting accommodation experience, five star luxury tented rooms, and intimately lit pathways, strategically placed help to create a romantic atmosphere of sepia glows and warmth.

Kapama Buffalo Camp is infused with the character of a serene destination with all the colour and wonder of the bush making you feel at home.

Victoria Falls Safari Lodge

Only four kilometres from the famed Victoria Falls known in the local language as ‘the smoke that thunders’ and set on a high plateau overlooking the Zambezi National park, the Victoria Falls Safari Lodge offers only the best in an unforgettable true African experience.

More Info

Rates include a fixed budget for flights during this tour. Flights may cost more, depending on travel dates. If so, your quote will reflect this.

Price includes:

Park Fees
All activities
Accommodation
All transportation
All flights during the tour
Three meals at Kapama Buffalo Camp
Breakfast at Victoria Falls Safari Lodge
Lunch on Chobe Day trip
Game drives in the Kruger
Sunset cruise in Victoria Falls
Tour of the Victoria Falls

Price Excludes:

Victoria Falls Activities on Day
International flights (from/to home)
Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour
Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour